Mount Fuji becomes crowded with hikers during the summer, with its trails known for their serious traffic jams. One factor ...

Prospective hikers to the Japanese tourist site will have to take a class about hiking safety and local rules.

Climbers using the four trails on Mount Fuji will be charged a fee of 4,000 yen (US$27) from this summer after a plan by the Shizuoka prefectural government was approved this week by the local ...

FUJI-YOSHIDA, Yamanashi Prefecture—Restrictions on private vehicles on the roads to Mount Fuji during the climbing season may soon be expanded to include large tour buses and taxis. Authorities ...

The proposed regulations also require that trail safety guides and tour guides have the authority ... Over-tourism has been recognized as a problem on Mount Fuji, causing Yamanashi and Shizuoka ...

But after 16 hours of walking and hiking, I finally set my feet on the 3,776m Kengamine peak of Mount Fuji in Japan. I was emotionally overwhelmed by it all, but it was a blissful feeling ...

To see Mt. Fuji you don’t go all the way there. The best views are had from a small mountain resort town called Hakone, about ...